Starting
in year 1979, China Mint has been issuing hundreds of
commemorative coins.In
the past 30 years, Chinese modern commemorative coins have grown into 11 theme
categories such as major historical events, historical sites and national
cultures, outstanding historical figures, unicorns and endangered animals. They
cover China's history of over 5000 years.
Considering a country with 1.3 billion citizens, some of these coins carry
unbelievable low mintages, and are extremely scarce. In those early years,
many Chinese modern commemorative coins have extremely low mintage since the
demand of those coins was very low. Nowadays, as Chinese economy rapidly
develops, the collecting demand of modern commemorative coins is picking up
dramatically. The mintage of collectible modern commemorative coins is
much higher than the past years. Therefore those low
mintage coins issued in the early years will become more
and more scarce. In this site, we focus on
coins with planned mintages below 1000.

The First...The First Chinese Gold Coin (1979 The
30th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC Gold Coin
Set), The First
Silver (1979 International Children's Year Silver Coins), The First Lunar-Zodiac
(1981 Xin You Year (Year of the Rooster) Gold and Silver
Coins), The First Platinum (1987
Platinum Panda Coin), The First 10kg Gold (2000
the Millennium Year 10kg Gold Coin), The First 1g Gold (1983
Marco Polo 1g Gold Coin) more

Hologram CoinsOnly four gold and one silver hologram coins
were officially issued by P.R.C. so far. They are 2001, 2002,
2003 & 2004
1/10oz hologram gold QuanYin coins, and 2004 The 50th Anniversary of
the People's Congress hologram silver coin.